Were there planes in the Revolutionary war?

Answer 1

Yes, there were aeronautical aircraft during the Civil War and possibly prior. For example, in 1863 the lead engineer and developer, James P. Sams Sr. born on April 27 1839 at his parents home in Chatahoochie, FL., was working with William Powell, from Mobile, AL, to create the Confederate-Reconoiterer. He conducted full-scale tests of metal rotor blades in the field, then convinced his commander, Colonel John Ford, to order him to duty, where he raised the money with which to build his Confederate-Reconoiterer, a flying machine designed to conduct counter reconnaissance missions over enemy lines.

The machine would be lifted into the air by twin rotary wings set above and below the fuselage, and driven forward by propellers at the front and rear. Two large flat copper plates, each measuring ten feet in span and 55 feet, 6 inches long, were to be positioned on either side of the shell. The two plates were connected to a crank running through the fuselage, so that the crew could incline or depress the wings up to eight degrees above or below the horizontal to provide additional lift.

Plans called for the fuselage to be a cigar-shaped copper shell measuring 54 feet long, with landing runners on the underside. A chamber at the bottom of the shell would serve as a reservoir for the boiler water, with a second chamber above it for the coal. A light-weight, high pressure vertical steam engine with a vertical boiler were housed in the rear of the shell. A series of moveable balls were to be used to balance the Reconnoiterer. The designer estimated the total weight at take-off, with a crew of three on board and enough water and fuel for an eight-hour flight, at 8 tons.

James P. Sams and his wife Thelma Parks met at a mental institute in Chatahoochie, FL. She was a nurse and he was visiting his sick mother when they fell in love. They got married over the summer and then had two children named James P. Sams Jr. and James W. Sams carrying on his name. James P. Sams Sr. passed away December 7, 1941 in Pearl Harbor Hawaii at 6:00 a.m. in his hotel room at the age of 102 due to alcohol poisoning, leaving behind his two sons all the money he made from his civil war aircraft.

Answer 2

NO, there were no planes involved in the Civil War of the United States of America from 1861-1865. Airplanes had not been invented back then. The first real powered fixed-wing aircraft, the Wright Flyer, was not built until 1903, and the world's first practical airplane, the Wright Flyer, was not built until 1905.

Answer 3

Not until the 20th century. The Revolutionary War was in the 18th century (1700s).